20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

We understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books.

It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use. Full list after jump.

FreeBookSpot

FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.

You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.
4eBooks

4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. Each downloadable ebook has a short review with a description. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like .Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc.
Free-eBooks

Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.

You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free.
ManyBooks

ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can randomly browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
GetFreeEBooks

GetFreeEBooks is a free ebooks site where you can download free books totally free. All the ebooks within the site are legal downloadable free ebooks.
FreeComputerBooks

FreeComputerBooks consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories.
FreeTechBooks

FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout FreeTechBooks, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.
Scribd

Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
Globusz

Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads. They also provide an excellent Star Rating Showcase for new and evolving authors.
KnowFree

KnowFree is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice.
OnlineFreeEBooks

OnlineFreeEBooks provides links to various ebooks (mostly in pdf) spanning in 9 big categories which are: Automotive Ebooks, Business Ebooks, Engineering Ebooks, Gadget Ebooks, Hardware Ebooks, Health & Medical Ebooks, Hobbies Ebooks, Programming & Technology Ebooks, Sport & Martial Art Ebooks.
MemoWare

MemoWare has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device.
BluePortal
OnlineComputerBooks

OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors.
SnipFiles

SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by brought or attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the products on their page.

BookYards

BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection.

The Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.

AskSam Ebooks

AskSam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.

Baen Free Library

Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels.
eBookLobby

Free ebooks in eBookLobby are divided into different categories. Categorys range from business, art, computing and education. Select the category appropriate to the e-book you’re looking for.

More Free eBook resources

PlanetPDF - A small collection of classic novels all in PDF format.
DailyLit - Read books online by daily email and RSS feed.
Wikibooks - Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
Dwalin - Free novels in text format.
Project Gutenberg - Free ebooks from producers.
Adobe Free eBooks - In Adobe’s Free eBooks area, you can download, unlock, and read electronic books on your personal computer or reading device.
Alive & Free - A page of links to some recent books from living authors available free online.
Franklin - Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats.
Read Easily - An ebook online library which has been designed to provide you an adaptive reading experience!
PDFbooks - This new site offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books.
Witguides - An online source for a wide range of useful e-books that are completely free with no need to sign-up or buy anything.
Diesel eBooks -Offer free ebooks formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket.
Free eBook Miners -
Free eBooks for your education, research or amusement.
Planet eBook -
Free classic literature to download and share.
e-Library - Plenty of free ebooks available for download.

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Comments

Stifford Runa August 6th, 2008

I hope I can get what I want in the above mantioned sites. It’s very intresting to get so much sites about E books. Thanks for such information.
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PenangTuaPui August 6th, 2008

aiseh.. no free lunch in this world….

but got free ebook wor…… how come?!!!!

NOT FARE la….

sorry….. our mind is keep on thinking on the food nia… paiseh…

few of the web site shared above is my favourite ebook web site……

btw,,, thanks for commenting in my web. appreciate that, we did drop u a msg through contact… wonder if u have them read?
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AS August 7th, 2008

Nice list, Thank you!
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JH August 7th, 2008

wow, impressive and unexpected. way cool.
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anon August 7th, 2008

Don’t forget bookchan. Google it.

Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
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United Voices August 7th, 2008

thanks for these links man. these sites have got a huge collection of ebooks for download and that too for 0 cost. pretty cool.
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ajinkya August 7th, 2008

thanks a lot! best list.
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Raj August 7th, 2008

Thanks for the list. Links to many legal book can be found in
http://free-ebook-download-links.blogspot.com/
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Kay August 7th, 2008

Glad that you all like it. :)
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Yucel Eroglu August 7th, 2008

nice list, thanks hongkiat…
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Myo Kyaw Htun August 7th, 2008

ebook3000
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anon August 7th, 2008

please check http://www.flazx.com for tech books
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Ross P August 7th, 2008

Hi, I enjoyed your post and this blog…

Please check out ebooks247.net, which gives away

ebooks at the lowest price legal possible keeping to the

rights set by the authors, this month we are giving away

around $700 worth of ebooks for $15 and membership

can start from free. A must see website.

Thank you
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Yong How August 7th, 2008

great sharing. need to research on some tech stuffs.
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La Ode Adam August 7th, 2008

please check http://www.slideshare.com
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Steve August 7th, 2008

Hi,

Would you mind adding my ebook giveaway to your list ??

http://www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_ebook_giveawaylist.asp

Its completely Free, doesn’t require registration and currently has over 50 Money Making Ebooks available for download.

I am planning to launch the 2nd phase in the next Month which contains another 50+ ebooks, as well as FREE software aimed to help you make money online.

Would be very grateful, especially if you could add a screenshot too.

Many thanks
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iphoner August 7th, 2008

lol, of corse the best one is http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

but you forgot it
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Fred Zelders August 7th, 2008

Great collection. Thanks!

With Grazr I created a reading list @ http://www.grazr.com/read/fzelders/Free_EBooks
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NIsha Verma August 7th, 2008

all that is just googled and never seems to be verified by u…

Bcos most of the good books’ links are missing / reported spam at various file hosting websites like Rapidshare / FRee file storage etc. and hence are no longer available.

SO next time do include updated websites instead of just doing search on S Engines like Yahoo and google.

All of the people have just wasted their time in thanking u above bcos they don’t know the reality perhaps..
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Shreemani August 8th, 2008

Nice web links for free ebooks. Thanks.
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GrammarGestapo August 8th, 2008

“We understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source.”

Wow. If you’re trying to promote reading, please at least make your promotion readable. I think what you meant was “We understand that reading is the simplest way to derive and construct meaning from a source.”
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Kay August 8th, 2008

@NIsha Verma, google is just one of our methods for researching. We did verify all these sites and filter many from our research.
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Kay August 8th, 2008

@GrammarGestapo, sorry if my broken English has offended you. We will try to hire an English literature professor to edit and QC our entries before we post them in future.
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Greg Gauthier August 8th, 2008

A half dozen or so free books AND audiobooks (read by a real human being, with skill), can be found here as well:

http://www.freedomainradio.com/free
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sandeep August 9th, 2008

how could u people forget http://www.esnips.com
by far its the best place to find any ebook…….
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Friedbeef August 9th, 2008

Don’t forget this :)

http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/04/09/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide/
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Download Free HTML Ebooks August 10th, 2008

Thanks for the gr8 list .. Its really appreciated. Thanks once again..
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syokkahwin.com August 10th, 2008

another interesting site for free ebook is esnips.com but need to register first..
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Steve Yu August 10th, 2008

Another great list compiled at hongkiat.com . Keep coming out with great list.
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Hillel August 10th, 2008

Thanks for the great list!
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SpilltoJill August 10th, 2008

Great List…

I thought the list was done and then saw so many more in the comments!
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Pelican August 11th, 2008

Any Site for medical ebooks….
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blogciniorg August 11th, 2008

that is a great list… thanks for sharing… i will try all of them…
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Gio August 11th, 2008

You can add my site to the list: http://www.bookgoldmine.com :)
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Angga Rifandi August 11th, 2008

nice free ebooks list.
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Oscar August 12th, 2008

Espectacular!!! Thanks :;
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pankaj sharma August 12th, 2008

nice free ebooks
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peter August 12th, 2008

great list but not complete, readers need and medical ebooks
and they can find on Medical Community

Enjoy and comment about this…
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Skinny Cindy August 13th, 2008

Thank you so much, so many great sites, but so far http://www.snipfiles.com is my favorite out of your list.

Keep up the good work!
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Danesh August 13th, 2008

Love scribd
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mongther August 13th, 2008

Thank You!! can you add http://www.ebooks-space.com in you eBooks Free Download Website?
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Colin Miller - Freelance web designer August 13th, 2008

This is a great blog! Fantastic! My iPhone is getting full with all these ebooks
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Jack Dale August 14th, 2008

What about PublicLiterature.org? We have over 500 books and over 300 audio books. Plus we don’t have all those annoying ads like everyone else…

We have a volunteer staff and are currently supported by Ibiblio (University of North Carolina). Comments appreciated!

-Jack
PublicLiterature.org
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WordsAreGood August 14th, 2008

The Books Online Search (http://thewriteresearch.com/books-online-search/) is also a good resource.

Books Online Search “searches across a large group of sites that offer online book collections, in most cases free of charge. In addition to online etexts and ebooks, audio book collections are also in the search database.”
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Suresh August 15th, 2008

Real cool! Very good sites have been mentioned here. By the way, eSnips too is an excellent site for e-books.
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bard August 15th, 2008

Thanks a lot for these info.. I Love for FREE ebook coz everybody also like ‘FREE’ etc..

May God Bless them for giving these FREE web ebook..

“Lets enjoy reading it”..
- hey don’t worry if you overloaded information - many thanks to God you got it ok..
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thenetguruz August 15th, 2008

wow thats a big list!! thanks a lot :)
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Syahid A. August 16th, 2008

agreed with @12. This is where i search for books mostly.
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liew August 17th, 2008

Thanks for sharing. Visit this site too, also free ebooks. http://varietiesinside.blogspot.com
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Mustafa August 18th, 2008

Here’s another: http://downloadfreeproducts.blogspot.com
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ArrGee August 18th, 2008

UNLUCKY NUMBER 13 - BLUEPORTAL

It redirects to some kind of Dating site!!!
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ArrGee August 18th, 2008

Sorry, me again. The links for 17 and 18 are the same.
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Kay August 18th, 2008

@ArrGee, thank you. I have amended them link 18. For BluePortal, its domain just expired on 15th August. I guess its webmaster will do something on it.
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Ha Dzung August 18th, 2008

we are standing the shoulder of the gaint
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Stam August 20th, 2008

Here is my site with categorized listing of free e-books:
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
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http://www.squidoo.com/extra-money-to-your-paypal August 22nd, 2008

What an awesome list of FREE ebooks! Thank you for posting that!
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Kiqlo August 22nd, 2008

Check out here Kiqlo for free eBooks. It is free to upload and the amazing thing is that if you own it you can sell it if you feel like it. It is free and Kiqlo does not take any cut on the sell :)
You don’t need to be logged in to download or to upload. You need to register if you want to sell it.

Try it out. It is free!
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Ahmed August 22nd, 2008

Thanks all they have provided very great links , i am adding the following links

http://gigapedia.info/
(needs free registeration)

http://www.dbebooks.in/
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Nitin August 22nd, 2008

Best Ebooks search engines for free ebooks download Please Try It
http://ebooksearch.we.bs
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narra August 23rd, 2008

thank you for the list. it’s a lot easier now to find good e-books sites.
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Bairuz August 24th, 2008

Thanks for the list! Scribd, for me, is the best of the bunch!
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sobookee August 25th, 2008

over 200,000 eboos can be found here as well:

http://www.sobookee.com
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pouria tabarzadi August 25th, 2008

Your attends are appreciate, since you want to help peaple to read books everywhere without any problem with the price.
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something August 25th, 2008

What about http://thepiratebay.org/ ?
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Abdo August 26th, 2008

Thanks a lot for these great sites. Keep up.
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josh August 28th, 2008

cool sites, I have been very helpful!
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Carlos F Santos August 28th, 2008

Acho que uma das melhores coisas que conheci, em informática
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Clifford August 29th, 2008

Cool, very nice
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xunzhaoqianlicao August 30th, 2008

that is quite right!sometime i download ebooks from those site!!!!!!
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IceZero August 30th, 2008

Cool, very nice http://www.dbebooks.in 8000+ ebooks
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mansoor iqbal August 31st, 2008

write ’scribd’ on google and then enter ‘TEXTILE’ in search option.you will find my new book 2008 edition on TEXTILE DYES.
THANKS
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mansoor iqbal August 31st, 2008

download TEXTILE DYES :www.scribd.com BY MANSOOR IQBAL
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cdotraffic September 1st, 2008

Nothing beats GIGAPEDIA.ORG!
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Sarojkanta Dash September 4th, 2008

Worth a milion-dollar site. Amazing! so much labour must have gone into it. Thanks a lot for this list.
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ganesh September 5th, 2008

Hi, I enjoyed your post and this blog…

try…………….
http://books-pdf.blogspot.com
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pandreson September 5th, 2008

Public libraries can now offer eBooks by best-selling authors such as Barack Obama, Dean Koontz, and Christopher Paolini to their patrons. OverDrive , the leading digital book distributor to public libraries, has arranged to offer Random House.
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Delaserna September 7th, 2008

You missed this one http://www.pdfoo.com
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ebook September 7th, 2008

more free ebook http://ebook.networkgood.com
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campinoy September 10th, 2008

wow….i’m so impressed with so many free e-books that I can read…i think i can’t read them all…but wow….i like it….can you pls make it easier for us to download them? got some difficulties in downloading most of them….thanks…
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J2me projects September 12th, 2008

Thanks for the list. Works great!!
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Laurie September 12th, 2008

Don’t forget to check out your local public library! Many libraries offer a variety of free ebooks including fiction from current bestsellers to classics and non-fiction on subjects such as technology, law, medicine, & more.
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sushii September 13th, 2008

thank u soo much for this list, i found it really helpful :)
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Gourav Mittal September 14th, 2008

this is the most charming wbsite on the internet
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Gourav Mittal September 14th, 2008

This is a outstanding website
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madhu September 16th, 2008

Thank you very much
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Trap September 18th, 2008

Awesome contribution, thank you
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amit September 19th, 2008

Thanks for this site. realy there huge resource for fresher. thank u again
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Keron Calame September 21st, 2008

I am glad i found this cause i have been looking for free ebooks to test out the Mobi Pocket reader application i added to my Blackberry Pearl
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solomath September 21st, 2008

Excelente referencia. Muchas gracias.
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shabib September 22nd, 2008

I am ver very glad i found this cause i have been looking for free ebooks
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iftikhar September 23rd, 2008

hi i really like this coz i got plenty of books and all for free thanks
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HMV September 23rd, 2008

you have missed

gigapedia.org

lol the list is incomplete with out tht…
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恶猫的博客 October 1st, 2008

好文章,这个这个…想转载一下不知道可以不?嘿嘿114
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Вован October 2nd, 2008

Фигня всё это…
Кому нужен этот ацтой?
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mesha October 2nd, 2008

hundreds of free ebooks,graphics and scripts. You might like this.
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I have to got name? October 3rd, 2008

god god!!! but some of them got virus because my anti virus told me about that so be carifull
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I have to got name? October 3rd, 2008

but I am not sure about that!!
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bookm October 5th, 2008

and it is my favorite free books site
http://www.ebooksdownloadfree.com
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artergy October 6th, 2008

Подскажите шооблончег под Wordpress 2.6.2, чтобы был похож на ваш http://www.hongkiat.com.

Заранее благодарю)
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Ash October 7th, 2008

Great resource. Thanks :)
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Heuer October 8th, 2008

great to consider myebookslink.blogspot.com
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Heuer October 8th, 2008

the link is unclickable, ok i put again
myebookslink.blogspot.com
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baggy October 8th, 2008

could anyone help me to find out where i can find out this book:
GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS by ERRAN CARMEL
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abman October 9th, 2008

where can I find http://www.smallbizbooks.com books ?

I need to download them asap.

abman4444@gmail.com
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Goji Juice October 9th, 2008

Nice and informative article…
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esh October 10th, 2008

we can download..e-books from 4shared.com also…
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hongkiat.com

20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

FreeBookSpot

4eBooks

Free-eBooks

ManyBooks

GetFreeEBooks

FreeComputerBooks

FreeTechBooks

Scribd

Globusz

KnowFree

OnlineFreeEBooks

MemoWare

BluePortal

OnlineComputerBooks

SnipFiles

BookYards

The Online Books Page

AskSam Ebooks

Baen Free Library

eBookLobby

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